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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

F. BEIERMEISTER, Jr.

SHIRT.

No. 354,375. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

(No Model.) Q 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 F. BIEIIBRMEISTER, Jr. I

SHIRT. No. 354,375. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

Wz fnesses UNITED STATES FREDERICK BEIERMEISTER,

PATENT, OFFICE.

JR, or rnov, NEW roan.

SHIRT.

SP3 CIFICATIOZT forming part of Letters Patent No. 35%,375, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed August 5, 1886. Serial No. 210,065. (No model.)

To ail whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BEIERMEIs- TE'R, J r., a resident of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it'appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The objects of my invention are to re-enforee the shirt about the neck-opening, and provide a smooth, comfortable, and ornamental cover for the band-seam on the inner side of the shirt.

Figure l of the drawings is a front top view of a portion of a shirtfshowing the neck-opening. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the inner side of a shirt, showing the re-en'foreing ply or facing A. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the parts ripped apart and severally exposed to View at one end. Fig. 4 is acrosssection taken at the broken line x x in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a similar cross-section showing a modified form of arrangement. Fig. 6 is a cross-section similar to Fig. 4, showing an i ncreased number of thicknesses of fabric.

The shirt may be made up in any of the well-known forms, or, as shown, having a body part, S, yokes Y, bosom B, and band B, surrounding t-heneck-opening.

As heretofore constructed the neckopening was protected by a band composed of two or more plies of fabric, as a b, secured to the edges of the shirt body and yokes by a line of stitching, d, along the edges on one side, the edges on the other side being turned in and stitched together by a line of stitching, e, the same as shown in Fig. 5, except the ply A. A fold, g, was thus formed on the inner side of the shirt at the junction of the shirt and band, which frequently ch afed the neck of the wearer,

and being subjected to more wear by reason of its projection from the body of the shirt, the band soon wore out and became useless. By stitching a re-enforcing ply or facing, A, along the edge on one side to the top or upper portionof the band and along the edge on the other side to the shirt, I am able not only to cover and conceal the bandseam or fold g, to present a smooth and tidy inner surface, but to greatly strengthen and re-enforce the band and its connection with the shirt. This ply A may be attached in any convenient known manner of attaching facings. In Fig. 4. it is shown turned in at the edges on both sides, one side being stitched, at 0, upon the upper side of the band, the upper edges of which are turned up against it, and the other side upon the shirt by a line of stitching, i. In Fig. 5 one edge is shown inserted between the turnedin edges of the upper side of the band and the parts secured together by line of stitching 6, while the lower side is secured as shown in Fig. 4. As shown in Fig. 6, the upper side is stitched to the plies a and I), while laid thereon wrong-side out, by line of stitching h, and the other side then turned down upon the shirt and secured as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

The shirt and band may be made of any desired number of plies or thicknesses, two shirtplies and three band -plies being shown in Fig. 6.

The facing-ply may be secured to the lower edge of the band when desired, as by a line of stitching, 0. (Shown in Fig. 5, and by dotted lines in Fig. 6 and part way in Fig. 1.)

The cross-sectional views are somewhat ex agerated in size and shape,to more elearlyillustrate the relative arrangement of the parts.

I am thus able to provide a s1nooth,finished surface on the inside of the neck-opening, to come in contact with the wearer, and prevent the band from wearing out at its folded edge, at the same time more strongly securing it upon the shirt.

I am aware that the band yoke or cuff of a shirt has been re-enforced by extending the outer ply over and sewing it to the shirt, but

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the shirt herein described, thesame comprising a neck- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of August, 1886.

band secured to the neckopening of the body and having a re-enforcing strip secured upon the inside of the said band at the upper margin thereof and to the body of the garment upon a 5 line below the lower edge of the neckband,

whereby the seam made in attaching the neck- \Vitnesses: band to the shirt-body is covered from con- GEO. A. MOSHER, tact with the neck of the wearer, as set forth. REINHARDT HELLER.

FREDERICK BEIERM EISTER, JR. 

